Workshop “The Topology of 3-dimensional Manifolds”

May 6-17, 2013

Program

 

Monday, May 6, 2013

09:30 - 10:00
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) M-415 (Pavillon Roger-Gaudry)

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : M-415 (Pavillon Roger-Gaudry)

10:00 - 11:30
Juan Souto
(University of British Columbia)
The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds - I
Abstract
11:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Juan Souto
(University of British Columbia)
The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds - II
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : M-415 (Pavillon Roger-Gaudry)

10:00 - 11:30
Juan Souto
(University of British Columbia)
The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds - III
Abstract
11:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Ian Agol
(University of California, Berkeley)
Three-manifold groups - The geometrization theorem
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00
Ian Agol
(University of California, Berkeley)
Three-manifold groups - Tameness and Kleinian groups
Abstract

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : M-415 (Pavillon Roger-Gaudry)

10:00 - 11:30
Juan Souto
(University of British Columbia)
The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds - IV
Abstract
11:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Ian Agol
(University of California, Berkeley)
Three-manifold groups - Virtual fibering
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00
Ian Agol
(University of California, Berkeley)
Three-manifold groups - Cubulations
Abstract

 

Thursday, May 9, 2013

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : 1035 (Pavillon J. Armand Bombardier)

10:00 - 11:30
Tao Li
(Boston College)
Heegaard splittings - I
Abstract
11:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Tao Li
(Boston College)
Heegaard splittings - II
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 1360 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

16:15 - 17:15
Dave Gabai
(Princeton University)
Poincaré's work on topology
Abstract
17:15 - 18:15
Reception
Room(s) 6245 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

 

Friday, May 10, 2013

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Mini-cours / Mini-courses
Meeting room(s) : 1035 (Pavillon J. Armand Bombardier)

10:00 - 11:30
Tao Li
(Boston College)
Heegaard splittings - III
Abstract
11:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Tao Li
(Boston College)
Heegaard splittings - IV
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 1360 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

16:15 - 17:15
Dave Gabai
(Princeton University)
Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Abstract

 

Monday, May 13, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

09:30 - 10:30
Daniel T. Wise
(McGill University)
Mixed 3-manifolds are virtually special
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Nathan M. Dunfield
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Integer homology 3-spheres with large injectivity radius
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Jessica Purcell
(Brigham Young University)
Geodesics in compression bodies
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

15:30 - 16:30
Dave Gabai
(Princeton University)
On the topology of ending laminations space - I
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

09:30 - 10:30
Stefan Friedl
(Universität zu Köln)
HNN-splittings of knot groups
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Alexander Kolpakov
(Vanderbilt University)
Cusp structure of hyperbolic four-dimensional manifolds
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Christopher J. Leininger
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Dynamics on Free-by-cyclic groups
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

15:30 - 16:30
Dave Gabai
(Princeton University)
On the topology of ending laminations space - II
Abstract

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

09:30 - 10:30
Ian Biringer
(Boston College)
Iterations in Schottky space
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jesse Johnson
(Oklahoma State University)
The structure of high distance Heegaard splittings
Abstract
12:00
Lunch break

 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

09:30 - 10:30
Genevieve Walsh
(Tufts University)
The big Dehn surgery graph, and the link of S^3
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Saul Schleimer
(University of Warwick)
The boundary of the arc complex
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Jeffrey F. Brock
(Brown University)
Fat, exhausted, hyperbolic knots
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Joshua Evan Greene
(Boston College)
Conway mutation and alternating links
Abstract

 

Friday, May 17, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Atelier / Workshop
Meeting room(s) : 6214 (Pavillon Aisenstadt)

09:30 - 10:30
Paolo Ghiggini
(CNRS et Université de Nantes)
On the isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Zhongtao Wu
(CALTECH)
On rational genus of knots
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Ken Bromberg
(University of Utah)
Stable commutator length in mapping class groups
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
Room(s) 6245